tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post2808309604829130229..comments2015-03-03T08:39:28.550-07:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: 1st Look: Family Tree Maker 2008The Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-18022080277046295792007-07-28T12:47:00.000-06:002007-07-28T12:47:00.000-06:00I'm someone who definitely will not be "upgrading"...I'm someone who definitely <I><B>will not</B></I> be "upgrading" to FTM2008. The new version may be wonderful for users who work in full-screen mode on giant screens but the experience for me on a portable with a considerably smaller screen was truly awful. <BR/><BR/>That's espcially true in the area of web integration where easy to see/use hit list of FTM16 has been replaced with a virtually unusable window of the regular ancestry page. In my case, 14 lines of possible choices were reduced to 4 cramped hits. The button to display a separate window wasn't really helpful since you have to hit it for each choice. I would prefer a program option that would replicate the old display.<BR/><BR/>RE FTM-TECH: It's not a discussion board, it's a mailing list [see http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/FTM-TECH/2007-07]. You can search the archives online but the only way to participate in a discussion is to subscribe to the mailing list -- which means that you can't actually reply to anything that was posted before you joined and you have to keep up via your e-mail program. It would be nice to have a discussion board somewhere to discuss FTM properly. The board in the ancestry community doesn't seem to attract much traffic.Athenanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-13291627420475031732007-07-23T11:51:00.000-06:002007-07-23T11:51:00.000-06:00Would someone post the link to the FTM-Tech user d...Would someone post the link to the FTM-Tech user discussion board. Did not find it on a google search. ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-64297967825095268632007-07-20T13:35:00.000-06:002007-07-20T13:35:00.000-06:00Mal,Thanks for your comments. You're right on the ...Mal,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comments. You're right on the money.<BR/><BR/>The InsiderAncestryInsiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-61670271163773837992007-07-19T08:37:00.000-06:002007-07-19T08:37:00.000-06:00Also worth noting is that an informal poll on the ...Also worth noting is that an informal poll on the user list found that more than 50% would not pay to upgrade based on what they saw now in the beta.Malhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12333745800807828798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-15692370382493751022007-07-19T08:36:00.000-06:002007-07-19T08:36:00.000-06:00It is important to look at what they left out and ...It is important to look at what they left out and to realize that a otal re-write means this is a 1.0 release of new, largely untested software. <BR/><BR/>The FTM-Tech user discussion board has been filled with unhappy users upset over the lack of ability to consistently import old files, or to write to formats compatible with previous versions. Data CD-ROM reading has been left out, leaving many of us with libraries of CDs we can not use with the new version. <BR/><BR/>The few weeks of beta testing just before the announced ship date has not been enough time to work the bugs out, and there is a steep learning curve and significant difference in what features they chose to include or leave out.Malhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12333745800807828798noreply@blogger.com